to want to view a house more than once before putting in an offer?

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We've viewed a few places and 3 of them have been potentials.

1. Viewed 3 times before deciding it wasn't quite right for us. We were very close to putting in a bid but the work required would have been too much. The EA seemed to think 3 times was excessive but I did not think it was outlandish when spending thousands upon thousands of pounds.

1. We're booked into see a house for the second time this weekend with a builder friend so he can tell us what kind of work he thinks would be possible. When I spoke to the EA he said "a second viewing, do you think you'll be making an offer?" as if viewing a place we could potentially live in for more than 5 minutes was totally unreasonable unless we were 100% sure we'd put in an offer.

1. Viewed a house about 6 months ago and the vendors said our second viewing could only be for 5 minutes. I felt like Anneka Rice. The first viewing hardly took 10 minutes so it's not like the last time we were in there watching Panorama and eating their cheese and motherbanging crackers.

I'm half imaging viewing retirement properties in my 70s by merely opening the letterbox and having a good sniff.

How many times did you view your house before you put in an offer?
How many times is unreasonable? 2, 3, 4, 9, 67?

got to be honest, not a fan of vendors who keep wanting to pop back to the house and bloody worse bring mummy and daddy too!

view the area definatly at different times but the house twice the limit.

after all you have the details, the survey etc.

3 times would seem flaky and rude to me as it's an effort to get a house tidy for viewing.

Once. But we know the area and my parents live in similar house down the road.

Twice is ok, but find 3x a bit much.

It's quite a disruption, having to get everything looking perfect for buyers to look at.

Just put an offer on a house this evening after s second viewing. First one we saw the layout, got the general vibe. This evening we brought a relative who's an engineer, checked out the measurements for the main rooms, whether the work we want to do is feasible etc. Market reasonably stagnant here so we can take our time.

If I'm about to offer my life savings for a house I may live in forever I'm damn well going to check everything and not worry about wasting the EA's it vendor's time.

Twice, but that was because DH couldn't come with me first time.

Are these with the same EA each time?

Have offered on houses 3 times in my life, all on a second viewing. Unless you live somewhere where there is so much demand that a second viewing would waste time, it's perfectly acceptable to do a viewing without the rose tinted specs on before you offer to part with hard borrowed cash. After all, it's not just your own time you're trying not to waste.

We viewed this house three times. Once I viewed it. Then I took DH. Then I took my MIL and her friend who happened to be in town.

We were the only people interested so the vendor was keen to tidy up and get out so we could look round.

Worked out well for him in the end.

And actually we then rented the house for several months before we were in a position to buy it, so I was really really sure by the time we did put in an offer.

In the case of a house needing a lot of work, i might have done a first viewing alone, second with a partner or relative and 3rd with a builder, mind. Full structural surveys cost a bomb!

Once. I knew the area very, very well though. It was actually better than I remembered once we moved in (thank god!)

We were in a fairly unusual position though in that we wanted to stay in the area so were very limited in the properties we were looking at, and also moved extremely quickly. 6 weeks between putting our flat on the market, selling it, getting an offer accepted on this place and moving in.

Our buyer viewed our place once as well.

We walked away from a seemingly good house because the vendors had a very narrow time slot for viewing and it was off the beaten track which meant I couldn't visit without DH. If they weren't that eager to market, at a time when prices were rapidly rising, then I didn't trust them to go through with selling.

YANBU, btw. Normally I'd have viewed more than once. Probably only twice though.

Twice.

Viewing four times when the house has tenants in it . If there are tenants, then people should be even more aware of how much of an imposition it is to have constant viewings, and someone coming back four times is just downright rude. You may want to buy a house, but they have the right to have their lives minimally disrupted during the process. I would actually refuse to sell to a buyer who thought it was ok to do this, as they will obviously be rude and inconsiderate in other aspects of the sale as well.

Once. It had just come on the market, but there were already others after it. Went home after viewing and offered the asking price.

Our sellers were remarkably decent as one of the other viewers (who had already been round twice) subsequently offered £250k more, but they stuck with us even though they didn't need to!

We've just offered on a house we've seen once. We wanted to see another house for a second viewing at the same time, but the vendor couldn't make time for us. Her loss, we offered on the other house the next day (and they accepted yesterday!). I honestly think that had we been able to pitch the two houses against each other we probably would have offered on the one we saw before Xmas.

All the houses we've ever bought have been offered on after one viewing.
The house we are currently living in belongs to my parents. I know they regret buying if after coming round once, in the dark.
There were a lot of things cosmetically wrong with it and they spent hours filling in bits of woodwork with parrot bites out of it.
IMO, two viewings is about right.

Twice for everything that led to an offer. Plus a load of stalking, driving by at various times.

DH did 3, I did 2 of the house we're buying. It was empty and water turned off so my 2nd viewing (and DHs 3rd) was to check that the heating worked and all the taps/showers worked and to check all the windows and doors opened properly (after having problems in a house we previously bought). EA and vendor both happy to let us do this because we were clearly serious buyers (plus no chain and wanted to move quickly).

First house twice. Current house put offer in after first viewing and then went to view again a few days after offer was accepted. I would expect 2 viewings and would probably be annoyed with 3!

Twice is ok.
3 times would make me concerned that the viewers were disorganised - they should have at least a mental checklist of what they're after in a property and if they can't get that detail from 2 viewings, I would have confidence that they'd be straightforward buyers. I'd think they'd be the type to cause fussy delays and quibble over teeny tiny details.

wouldn't have confidence

Three times for the house we are now living in (with a year's gap in between - luckily for us it was still on the market!).

I don't think 3 or even 4 times is OTT when you are making such a huge investment, and for the vendor to say they can only look round for 5 minutes is totally unreasonable. I was quite surprised when we sold our previous home as the buyers only looked round once and never came back to check any details, ask for information - but the sale went through.

Zero! First saw this house the day we got keys. Husband had been for one viewing. We did the same with our last house.

This one twice as we had one or two doubts but I don't think ea is unreasonable to ask about offer as their job is to sell houses. Surely you view a second time because you are seriously interested?

I have been to first viewings alone with the idea of dh coming if it looks ok to me. But for the second time today I thankfully don't live in London.